Giant Size 42: No Children Were Murdered

What is the aftermath of two of the biggest of Big Two Mega-Event
Crossovers in comics history? Are our buying habits…FOREVER CHANGED???
(Yes.) How or can we justify $5 cover prices? Find out in a truly
80-ish-“page” (minute) Giant episode of the show!

...with Special Guest and former Marvel EIC (and the writer of the original
Secret Wars) Jim Shooter.

Now that Convergence and Secret Wars (2015+2016) are over, this episode
serves as the truefinale to Crossover Crisis Infinity, our 2015 multi-part
series on All Big Two Crossovers Ever…which, like Secret Wars, ends the
following calendar year and ends up longer in terms of installments than
was ever advertised.

What is the aftermath of two of the biggest of Big Two Mega-Event Crossovers in comics history? Are our buying habits…FOREVER CHANGED??? (Yes.) How or can we justify $5 cover prices? Find out in a truly 80-ish-“page” (minute) Giant episode of the show!

Crossovers Epic Event: Second Epilogue (No, For Real This Time)

Special Guest

Jim Shooter, former Marvel EIC and writer of Secret Wars (1984) and Secret Wars II

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Crossover Crisis Infinity Canonical Series Episode Checklist

Now that Convergence and Secret Wars (2015+2016) are over, this episode serves as the true finale to Crossover Crisis Infinity, our 2015 multi-part series on All Big Two Crossovers Ever…which, like Secret Wars, ends the following calendar year and ends up longer in terms of installments than was ever advertised.

Prelude - All-New Secret Age of Infinity Crossover War CrisisPoint Convergence
1 - #24: Your World is Going to be Destroyed! (DC pt1)
2 - #25: End of the Universe (DC pt2)
2.5 - #25.5: A Game for Children (Non-Canonical Trivia Game tie-in)
3 - #26: Heroes Punching Each Other (Marvel pt1)
4 - #27: The Experience Has Been Consummated! (Marvel pt2)
5 - #28: Chain Mail and a Bomber Jacket (Marvel pt3)
6 - #29: Doctor Strange Explains It All (Marvel pt4)
tie-in A - The Incomparable #140: The Sublime Magicks of Exposition
tie-in A deleted scenes - The Incomparable #140b: No More Merlins
7 - #30: Beyond Continuity Porn (Marvel pt5)
8 - #31: This Hero Must Die! (Marvel pt6)
Marvel NOW! tie-in A - ORIGINS #9: Illusion of Beginning/Middle/End
Marvel NOW! tie-in B - ORIGINS #10: Heavy Metal Album Cover
Epilogue - #32: Every Flavor is Chocolate
Prelude to Final Aftermath - One-Shot #2:Issue 10 Out of 8
RetConned Final, True Epilogue - #42: No Children Were Murdered

Reading List

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Oni Press

KaijuMax

“New Vertigo”

Art Ops
Red Thorn
Lucifer

DC

Prez
Cyborg
Martian Manhunter

“Valiant”

X-O Manowar
Harbinger
Ninjak (yes, seriously. It is great)
Unity
Faith (#1 out this month)
Death-Defying Dr. Mirage

Marvel

The Mighty Thor
Ms. Marvel
Captain Marvel
Ultimates
Howard the Duck
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
Silver Surfer
Dr. Strange
Scarlet Witch
The VISION

Titan

Surface Tension

Image

Monstress
Citizen Jack
Black Magick
Plutona
Paper Girls
We Stand on Guard
The Private Eye
God Hates Astronauts (going back to no-publisher independent)

Boom!-Archaia

Toil and Trouble

Dark Horse

The Steam Man

NEXT, IN A GIANT SIZE ONE-SHOT

We finally tackle Captain America Vol.1 #395, better known to longtime listeners as Captain America and Bearded Not-Original Thor vs. ”The House that Dripped…DOUGH???”, the Mark Gruenwald-written issue from 1994 wherein The Red Skull has sex with Viper in a hot tub (no, really!)!

JIM SHOOTER WILL RETURN